How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet

Re:How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet by baddox on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @03:58PM (#4044550)

> it was called a mass-market newspaper, and it wasn't all that bad.

I actually doubt that. Sure, there were social advantages to having a smaller body of reading material that most literate people had read. But the Internet allows us to do two different but important things: truly democratize editorship (like reddit), and enable niche editors to easily distribute their content (like slashdot, slashfilm, or techcrunch).

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Re:How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet by planetguy on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @04:18PM (#4044631)

Doesn't stop the fact that I'd get more satisfaction out of reading the New York Times (or even the New York Post) than browsing the front page of reddit.

Oh look, a picture of a velociraptor with a caption. And someone's cat. A terribly-drawn cartoon about why console gaming is better than PC gaming. Someone else's cat. Another cat. I'VE SEEN CATS BEFORE, PEOPLE!

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